> you can't even eat in most non-urban places or foreign countries because the insane concept of not cooking with animal fats and eating and using animal produc

> you can't even eat in most non-urban places or foreign countries because the insane concept of not cooking with animal fats and eating and using animal products just doesn't exist. You have to survive holding your breath from one hipster downtown area to the next. I don't know about their vegan traditions, but vegetarianism has been big in India for at least 3000 years. It sounds like tradition to me, religious (Jewish and Muslims do not eat pork, Hindus do not eat cows), and something outside a hipster downtown area. I suppose going to McDonald's and eating a super-processed burger from some chemical injecting factory farms in the antithesis of "bugman".